There are over 1.3 million identified non-inspect species living on earth today, which can mean only one thing: unless you're the all-knowing omnipotent creator that designed them, you don't know most of them exist. But, since we care about your mental expansion, we made this list for you of the 27 most bizarre, adorable, rare and straight-up gross animals that secretly share the planet with you.
There are over 1.3 million identified non-inspect species living on earth today, which can mean only one thing: unless you're the all-knowing omnipotent creator that designed them, you don't know most of them exist. But, since we care about your mental expansion, we made this list for you of the 27 most bizarre, adorable, rare and straight-up gross animals that secretly share the planet with you.
1. Pink Fairy Armadillo
Lives in: Sandy places in Argentina
Special talent: Smallest armadillo species, being soft and tough at the same time with its half-hair, half-shell thing it's got going on.
2. Aye Aye
Lives in: Madagascar
Special talent: Has a really long, politically incorrect middle finger it uses to scoop ants out of holes.
3. Blue Parrot Fish
Lives in: Shallow water and coral reefs around the Atlantic and Carribean
Special talent: Massive, creepy pharyngeal teeth they use to grind rocks into sand, because that's what the ocean needs; more sand.
4. Chevrotain Mouse Deer
Lives in: Southeast Asia and West Africa
Special talent: It's fucking tiny.
5. Gerenuk
Lives in: Horn of Africa
Special talent: Just look at it, man.
6. Giant Isopod
Lives in: Cold, deep waters of most major oceans, aka right under your cruise ship.
Special talent: Can go for five years without eating. We can't even go five minutes.
7. Goblin Shark
Lives in: Continental slopes, submarine canyons and sea slopes of most oceans.
Special talent: Haunting you. Also very rare and has no use for humans.
8. Maned Wolf
Lives in: Brazil-ish. Some other South American countries too.
Special talent: Being tall as hell. It's an adaptation to the grasslands where it lives. It can never wear heels around you, only flats.
9. Narwhal
Lives in: Arctic waters around Russia, Greenland and Canada
Special talent: Giant face tooth it uses to show off sexually. The bigger the tooth, the higher-ranking the narwhal is. Just like with human penises, except 22 pounds and razor sharp.
10. Numbat
Lives in: Western Australia.
Special talent: Nothing, it's useless.
11. Okapi
Lives in: Central Africa.
Special talent: Being half giraffe, half zebra. Has a tongue long enough to wash its own eyelids and ears with, so …
12. Pacu Fish
Lives in: South American freshwater.
Special talent: Having teeth that look exactly like yours.
13. Penis Snake
Lives in: Brazil
Special talent: Has no eyes (like a penis), lacks lungs (like a penis), breathes through its skin (um).
14. Poodle Moth
Lives in: Venezuela
Special talent: Putting up with your shit:
15. Proboscis Monkey
Lives in: Borneo
Special talent: Sexually dimorphic. Kinky.
16. Red Panda
Lives in: China
Special talent: Being criminally adorable.
17. Babirusa
Lives in: Indonesia
Special talent: A bunch of extra horns so you can never kiss it squarelyy between the eyes.
19. Blobfish
Lives in: Off the coast of Australia and Tasmania
Special talent: Super low-density flesh that allows it to float using no energy, but that also makes it look fucking crazy when you pull it out of the water.
20. Sea Pig
Lives in: Abyssal plains in most major oceans
Special talent: Being the only sea cucumber with locomotive legs.
21. Blue Dragon
Lives in: Everywhere there's warm water
Special talent: Being really cool looking and also eating venomous eggs from things that will sting you.
22. Silky Anteater
Lives in: Central and South America.
Special talent: Really small and soft. That's pretty much it.
23. Spiny Orb Weaver Spider
Lives in: Most of the states in the United States, including Colorado.
Special talent: Has a shell that makes you really not want to eat it.
24. Potto
Lives in: West and Central Africa
Special talent: Has a vestigal pointer finger on its hands, meaning it used to have a pointer finger, but thousands of years of evolution cut it off.
25. Red Lipped Batfish
Lives in: The Galapagos
Special talent: You're lookin' at it. The use their lips to lure prey, much like our ex-girlfriend.
26. Tufted Deer
Lives in: China and Myanmar.
Special talent: Having vampire fangs they use for fighting during mating season.
27. Wooly Sheep Pig
Lives in: Europe.
Special talent: Being fucking cozy.
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